Navman Wireless, a company specializing in fleet and equipment tracking solutions and products, is offering its new GPS-based speed monitoring service for its OnlineAVL2 fleet tracking system through a partnership with SpeedGauge, a provider of speed management analytics for the commercial transportation industry.

The company claims that the new service will help reduce risk, fuel use and maintenance costs.

Navman’s OnlineAVL2  is a system that helps in managing entire fleet and to gain full visibility by providing location, operations and performance data for both on-road vehicles and construction equipment from a single interface. The new SpeedGauge powered speed monitoring service marks the second enhancement to the OnlineAVL2 platform in a month.

Earlier in January, Navman Wireless added a route optimization capability powered by Dashfly that enables dispatchers to calculate the fastest and shortest driving routes for up to 25 stops with one click. The resulting routing information is then transmitted to Navman Wireless' M-Nav in-vehicle terminals for driver notification and turn-by-turn navigation.

“Driving speed has traditionally been a wild card in fleet management because fleet operators have had no way to measure this aspect of driver behavior. Yet speeding corresponds directly to accidents, fuel efficiency, and vehicle wear and tear,” Renaat Ver Eecke, vice president and general manager of Navman Wireless North America said in a press release.

“With SpeedGauge, managers can zero in on habitual speeders, use the information to corrective action, and dramatically reduce speeding incidents and related risk and costs through training and policy enforcement,” Eecke added.

As indicated, the new speed monitoring service is made available for fleets in the U.S. and Canada and it combines the two companies' technologies to help fleet operators reduce risk, fuel consumption and maintenance costs by detecting violations of posted speed limits and company speed policies.

Available as an add-on to any of Navman Wireless' monthly subscription packages, the SpeedGauge service enables fleet managers to identify high-risk driving behavior and analyze speeding patterns over time.

With this service, users can establish thresholds for driving over posted speed limits, with different settings for cars, trucks and hazmat vehicles; set limits and thresholds for private roads, truck yards and other locations outside of standard speed zones, and create custom speed zones with electronic geofences; receive daily, weekly or monthly emails that list the time, date, location, speed limit, actual speed and other key data for each speeding incident; see the precise location of any violation on a map by clicking on any incident.

Moreover, the system also allows users to drill down to additional details at Navman Wireless' password-protected SpeedGauge site, with the ability to sort by parameters such as vehicle and incident.

Also, it offers access a variety of trend reports online, including charts and graphs providing at-a-glance information on speed violations and improvements over time. Reports are archived online for a year and can also be imported by the fleet operator for longer recordkeeping.